Picante Taquería Mexican Grill runs a counter-service restaurant and full catering operation at 6620 Mission Gorge Road in Grantville, San Diego, anchoring a strip-mall storefront on the corridor that funnels traffic between SDSU and Mission Trails Regional Park. The Latino-owned kitchen serves a menu spanning tacos, burritos, seafood, and soups, with late-night weekend hours that extend into the early morning for the 92120 bar crowd filtering south from the Grantville brewery district. Mission Gorge Road's commercial density supports auto shops, breweries, and dining within the same half-mile strip, and the craft-beer taproom at San Diego Brewing Company draws a dinner crowd that pairs a pint with Picante's carne asada plates. The catering arm handles taco bars and full-service spreads for corporate and private events, processing orders through a dedicated catering line that runs parallel to the walk-in counter. Street tacos come on doubled corn tortillas with cilantro, onion, and a squeeze of lime, offered in carne asada, pollo asado, adobada, and carnitas. The seafood section covers shrimp cocktail, fish tacos, and a caldo de mariscos soup that loads mixed shellfish into a chile-tomato broth. Grantville's position as a gateway to Mission Trails makes the Mission Gorge strip a refueling stop for hikers heading north, and the same commercial zone stocks specialty cuts at Iowa Meat Farms's butcher counter a quarter-mile south. Breakfast burritos run bacon, chorizo, machaca, and a loaded option with eggs, potatoes, and cheese, wrapped in a grilled flour tortilla sized for the construction crews that stage on Mission Gorge before heading to east-county job sites. The combo plates pair two enchiladas or a chimichanga with rice, beans, and tortillas, and the California burrito folds carne asada with french fries, cheese, guacamole, and sour cream in the San Diego-style format that defines the region's taco-shop identity.